Towards the Edges

Created in response to this year’s curriculum: processes of co-learning; resistance to and reassembly of power structures; and connection through language and sound, and emerging from the associates' individual and collective interests, the multidimensional events programme will take place throughout Margate. Across sonic experiences, collaborative making, artist talks, and subversive cinema, the programme will call you to move Towards the Edges—further from categorisation, and closer to improvisation and uncertainty.

These events are part of Towards the Edges, Open School East's 2026 Associate Programme. Find more events at openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026.

About Open School East

Open School East is a free, independent art school in Margate that focuses on collective learning through the arts for adults, young people and children. Each year the current cohort of Associate Artists develop and deliver a public programme of events. Their public events, activities and short courses invite interactions between the artistic community, the local neighbourhood and the broader public. They include skills-based workshops, talks, seminars, reading groups, walks, performances, concerts, screenings and social gatherings. They are organised by, and in dialogue with OSE alumni and staff, guest practitioners, and local and regional partner organisations.